C.L NOTES 56-75

Question 1

56. What battle was fought after the treaty was signed?

Answer 1

The Battle of New Orleans

Question 2

56. Who was the American commander?

Answer 2

Andrew Jackson, who later became president.

Question 3

57. What is an Amplifier?

Answer 3

In electronics a device that takes a small electrical signal and converts it into a larger one.

Question 4

57. Where are amplifiers used?

Answer 4

Stereo systems, electronic guitars, computers speakers, and hundreds of other items.

Question 5

58. What is the Apollo Program?

Answer 5

A series of space flights undertaken by the U.S with a goal of landing a mon on the moon.

Question 6

58. When was the first lunar landing by humans?

Answer 6

The first lunar landing by humans was achieved by Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969.

Question 7

59. Who was Neil Armstrong?

Answer 7

He was the first man to set foot on the moon.

Question 8

59. Who was the first man to set foot on the moon?

Answer 8

Neil Armstrong

Question 9

60. What is AI?

Answer 9

The means of duplicating or imitating intelligence in computers, robots, and other devices, which allows them to solve problems, discriminate among objects, and respond to voice command.

Question 10

60. What does AI mean?

Answer 10

It means Artificial Intelligence.

Question 11

61. Who was Alexander Graham Bell?

Answer 11

An American inventor and scientist of the late 19th and early 20th century, born in Scotland.

Question 12

61. What was much of Bell’s career devoted, to?

Answer 12

Devoted to education of the deaf and to the production of electronic devices to help them hear better.

Question 13

62. What was formed as a result, of Bell’s work?

Answer 13

The Bell Telephone Company

Question 14

62. What was the company called?

Answer 14

The Bell Telephone Company

Question 15

63. What is Binary?

Answer 15

Anything composed of two parts.

Question 16

63. What does a Binary, do?

Answer 16

Since can be either on or off, they have a binary character, and we say that the computer uses binary arithmetic to do its work.

Question 17

64. What is a Bit?

Answer 17

The smallest unit of information.

Question 18

64. Where is the information of a digital computer stored?

Answer 18

The information in a digital computer is stored in the form of bits.

Question 19

65. What is Sonic Boom?

Answer 19

The sharp explosive should generated by a airplane traveling at speeds greater than the speed of sound.

Question 20

65. What does the Sonic Boom do when it’s done?

Answer 20

The sonic boom(trails after) the aircraft much like the wake follows a ship.

Question 21

66. What is a byte?

Answer 21

In computer technology, a unit of information made up of bits(often 8 bits).

Question 22

66. What is the memory capacity of a personal computer?

Answer 22

Runs from hundreds to millions of bytes.

Question 23

67. What is Celsius?

Answer 23

A temperature scale in which zero degrees is the freezing point of water, and 100 is the boiling point.

Question 24

67. What is temperatures in the scale denoted by?

Answer 24

Temperature in this scale is generally denoted by °C or, in scientific usage, C alone.

Question 25

68. What is Chernobyl?

Answer 25

A place in Ukraine where a nuclear power plant(a generator powers by a nuclear reactor) underwent a meltdown in 1986.

Question 26

68. What was the effect of Chernobyl?

Answer 26

Dozens of deaths and hundreds of illnesses were reported to have been caused by the accident.

Question 27

69. What is a computer virus?

Answer 27

A program that enters a computer(usually without the knowledge of the operator).

Question 28

69. What can happen when you have a computer virus?

Answer 28

Some viruses are mild, and only cause messages to appear on the screen, but others are destructive and can wipe out the computer’s memory or even cause, more severe damage.

Question 29

70. What is Cryogenics?

Answer 29

The branch of technology concerned with the behavior of materials at very low temperatures.

Question 30

60. What is Cryogenics concerned about?

Answer 30

Concerned about materials at very low temperatures, particularly temperatures near ABSOLUTE ZERO.

Question 31

71. Who is Thomas A. Edison?

Answer 31

An American inventor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Question 32

72. What is Edison’s originated proverb?

Answer 32

“Genius is on percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration”.

Question 33

71. What did Thomas A. Edison patent?

Answer 33

He patented more than a thousand devices including the phonograph and the incandescent light bulb.

Question 34

72. What was Thomas Edison also referred as?

Answer 34

The “Wizard of Menlo Park” after his hometown in New Jersey.

Question 35

73. What is Mass Media?

Answer 35

20th century newspapers, motion pictures, radio, television, an magazines.

Question 36

73. What does mass media provide to people?

Answer 36

Technical capacity to deliver information to millions of people.

Question 37

74. What is a meltdown?

Answer 37

The most serious accident that can occur at a nuclear reactor?

Question 38

74. What happens in a meltdown?

Answer 38

The radioactive material in the reactor becomes very hot, melting some or all the fuel in the reactor.

Question 39

75. What is a nano?

Answer 39

A prefix meaning one billionth of a second.

Question 40

75. What subject does nano, refer to?

Answer 40

Science